The Latest Razor: Rhoades’ Razor

In the spirit of Occam’s Razor, and perhaps even more specifically Hanlon’s Razor, today during an impromptu meeting the term “Rhoades’ Razor” was coined. So here I give it to you, my eponymous law, for all posterity to use:

The simplest answer is that you are an idiot.

Much like the Hanlon principle (“do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity”), this new principle can find quite a few comfortable homes and uses in the modern day business world.

So go, I say unto you, go and point out idiocy when you see it. Drive it from its home. Make it suffer. Punish it. Lest it turn you into one of its latest victims and servants to the status quo: the acceptance of the unnacceptable. Because if that happens, well then the simplest answer is that you are an idiot.

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Josh Rhoades is a technology Director (the awesome kind) of Front End Engineering, Software Engineering, and Flash Architecture teams, based in Los Angeles, California. He has lead multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, worked on theme park attractions like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Midway Mania!, snuck across borders, led multiple developments and launches of Disney.com, fought the law, looked into an abyss, kissed an eel, and rescued at least one damsel in distress.
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